{"id":384,"date":"2007-06-04T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/04\/portable-application-safety\/"},"modified":"2007-06-04T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T05:46:00","slug":"portable-application-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/04\/portable-application-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Portable Application Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start --><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Some suggestions for staying safe from <a href=\"http:\/\/portableapps.com\/\">PortableApps.com<\/a>&#8230;<\/i> <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An important thing to keep in mind when using portable applications is that they can be used to spread viruses between machines. While this isn&#8217;t as much of an issue when you own or are responsible for the machines you are using it on (say work and home), it can be a <b>very<\/b> big issue when you use a portable app on an untrusted or unknown machine (school, internet cafe, etc). For this reason, it is important that you practice <b>Safe Portable App-ing<\/b>!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> <\/div>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The Checklist<\/span><\/h2>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> <\/div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Use a <b>solid antivirus program<\/b> on your primary PC and keep its virus definitions up to date.<\/li>\n<li>Use a <b>solid antivirus program<\/b> on your portable device, like <a href=\"http:\/\/portableapps.com\/apps\/utilities\/clamwin_portable\">ClamWin Portable<\/a>, and keep its virus definitions up to date.<\/li>\n<li><b>Scan your PC and portable drive for viruses<\/b> on a regular basis.<\/li>\n<li>Whenever you plug your portable drive into an unknown computer, you should <b>assume that it may now be infected<\/b> with a virus. If the PC has a virus that is currently in memory, it may attempt to infect your portable applications as soon as you plug it in.<\/li>\n<li>When you then plug your portable drive into another computer (after an unknown), you should first <b>scan it for viruses before running any of your applications<\/b>. (Most antivirus software will make this available to you by right-clicking on your drive in Explorer or My Computer.) That way, if it is infected, you&#8217;ll know before you run your applications and the new computer will not be infected.<\/li>\n<li>Always <b>wait until the drive access light has stopped blinking<\/b> and then click the icon in your system tray to &#8216;Safely Remove&#8217; your device. Don&#8217;t just remove it. Just because the application&#8217;s window is closed doesn&#8217;t mean the app has fully closed and finished writing to the disk.<\/li>\n<li><b>Back up on a regular basis<\/b>, both your applications and your files.  <b>PortableApps Backup<\/b> makes this a snap and it&#8217;s built right into the <a href=\"http:\/\/portableapps.com\/suite\">PortableApps Suite<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you follow these simple rules, you&#8217;ll be able to <b>enjoy your portable  applications<\/b> without getting stuck with a virus or losing your data. As always, there is still the risk of getting a new virus that your antivirus program can&#8217;t yet detect, but the probability would be relatively low, and you run the same risk whenever you download a file from the internet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1603832936106174\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\n\/\/2007-03-03: Hikmah\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"9911825884\";\n\/\/--><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/div>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some suggestions for staying safe from PortableApps.com&#8230; An important thing to keep in mind when using portable applications is that they can be used to spread viruses between machines. While this isn&#8217;t as much of an issue when you own or are responsible for the machines you are using it on (say work and home), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-and-hosting","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}